Category: Study Abroad

  • Kurta Collaboration Exhibit: FIT and India’s Pearl Academy

    The current “Style Journey” exhibition in the Art and Design Gallery has an extensive section on contemporary kurtas, hand-embroidered and collaboratively designed by FIT Textile/Surface Design students and by Fashion Design students from Pearl Academy in India. We asked Textile Surface Design Professor Susanne Goetz, who curated the kurta section, for details on how it…

  • Kam Mak’s Studio Class: Virtually Live

    Illustration Professor Kam Mak revels in teaching studio painting classes with live models. It’s been part of his class syllabus for 20 years. Pre-pandemic he led a popular study abroad program in Florence where students paint in the medium of Renaissance masters. Naturally, remote teaching poses challenges. But Prof. Mak has technology on his side.…

  • A Color Voyage Includes French Pastry & Oysters

    “Even the pastries were intensely colorful,” says Prof. Jada Schumacher, “so were the window displays, stain glass lettering, cobblestones, oysters next to lemons and limes, the fabric and grosgrain ribbons, clothing in the Marais district, the flowers and leaf colors.” They are just a few vibrant details from A Color Voyage study abroad class in Paris…

  • Supremely Supima: Alyssa Wardrop!

    Supremely Supima: Alyssa Wardrop!

    Recent graduate Alyssa Wardrop has won the 10th annual Supima Design Competition. Her womenswear capstone collection was seen on the runway during Fashion Week yesterday. Art and Design Dean Troy Richards and Fashion Design Chair Eileen Karp were there and captured the moment. “I really got to do what I love doing and put everything…

  • Study Abroad in India: “‘Namaste’ and a smile got me far enough”

    Study Abroad in India: “‘Namaste’ and a smile got me far enough”

    “It’s culturally and visually so stimulating, the smells and sounds are all overwhelming in an incredible and good way,” says Photography Professor Jessica Wynne. She was mingling with the nine students she led through India as part of the International Photographic Study and Practice course this winter intersession. Upon viewing each others’ photographs at a…